Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces Nicole Shanahan as his vice presidential pick

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his running mate Tuesday after months of speculation, picking entrepreneur and attorney Nicole Shanahan as his No. 2.

Shanahan, 38, has deep ties to the tech industry and was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Her status as running mate is meant to boost Kennedy’s profile and bring in more cash to his campaign as he aims to pull closer in the polls to President Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“I managed to find a technologist at the forefront of AI,” an athlete and someone who is battletested against the “criticism and controversy” that comes with being a VP,” Kennedy said at his announcement.

“I was most importantly looking for a partner who is a young person, and Nicole is only 38 years old,” Kennedy added. “I wanted that because I wanted Nicole to be a champion of the growing number of millennial and Gen Z Americans who have lost faith in their future.”

A native of Oakland, Shanahan founded legal technology company ClearAccessIP and married Brin in 2018. The couple separated in December 2021, with the Wall Street Journal reporting in July 2022 that Shanahan had a brief affair the previous fall with Tesla founder and X boss Elon Musk. Both Musk and Shanahan have denied the report and her divorce from Brin was finalized in September of last year.

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